The nationwide search for a new superintendent in the K-8 Lennox School District has been winnowed to one candidate.

Fred Navarro currently serves as the assistant superintendent of educational services in the Anaheim Union High School District in Orange County, and is expected to succeed Bruce McDaniel, according to a press release from Lennox schools.

McDaniel, who has led the Lennox district for 14 years, will retire in December.

The Lennox school board plans to visit to the Anaheim district on Wednesday. An official announcement is expected shortly afterward, Lennox officials said in a press release.

Navarro came to Anaheim in 2006. Prior to that, he worked as a high school principal and curriculum director at Newport Mesa Unified School District. He also has served as a high school principal and middle school principal in Alhambra and Long Beach.

If hired, Navarro would report to work in Lennox sometime around Dec. 30.

The Lennox school district is composed of five elementary schools, a middle school and a charter high school.

As for McDaniel, he has worked in Lennox for 30 years, serving as principal of two elementary schools, director of the business office and an assistant superintendent.

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